Everything has costs and benefits, even climate change, though green ideologues don’t want the public to consider this.
Almost all of us discovered as children that fear is effective. A friend of mine, father of two very active children, ages six and nine, tells them when they don’t want to go to bed and prefer to pillow-fight for hours that if they don’t go to sleep a six-headed monster will come out of the closet and devour them. It works for him. It seems a bit cruel to me (six heads are too many), but his defense is also reasonable: “The dark bags under my eyes are cruel too.” Fear has always worked. And prophetic fear, that which foretells that something terrible is going to happen, is the most effective of all.
